Free ice pops at the pool are perhaps the least of the perks tenants get at the Irvine Co.’s 1221 Ocean Avenue apartments in Santa Monica.
During the summer, management hosts Sunday night dinners. MacBooks, room service, house keeping and fitness training also are available. Valets stand by to park residents’ Maseratis

Turner Construction’s Anaheim office couldn’t be busier.
First item of business: Demolish a parking garage along Katella Avenue and put up a 200,000-square-foot expansion to the Anaheim Convention Center. Next up: A 600-room hotel and indoor water park along Harbor Boulevard.
And, oh yes, there’s also the $1.1 b

Residents of The Marke apartments soon will be able to choose between cocktails at the rooftop pool while watching a movie or exercising with a personal trainer at the nearby fitness center.
Without leaving the newly built complex, they can get their pets groomed at the “pet spaw,” buy snacks at an in-house store or go bowlin

All the Newport Beach homeowner wanted to do was remodel her master bedroom and her master bathroom.
But to do that, architect Brion Jeannette told her, she also must replace every faucet, showerhead and toilet in her 11,000-square-foot house. That includes all the plumbing fixtures in the kitchen and in her 10 other bathrooms and powder

Wanda Vance has lived in San Juan Capistrano off and on for 40 years, moving away to live in Hawaii, San Clemente and La Quinta from time to time. But just like the swallows, she kept returning.
In April, Vance said, she came back for good, plunking down $420,000 to buy a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home she shares with her 59-year-old s

Twenty floors up, views from Fashion Island’s newest high-rise stretch from the Newport Harbor jetty to the Santa Ana Mountains.
Up the coastline, you can see the AES power plant in Huntington Beach. And on a clear day, you can see all the way to downtown Los Angeles.
“Arguably, there’s no place in California th

During his year as National Association of Realtors president, Villa Park broker Gary Thomas became a regular on Capitol Hill, defending mortgage interest tax breaks for homeowners and continued government backing of home loans.